elephant | (noun) five-toed pachyderm | - |
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(noun) the symbol of the Republican Party; introduced in cartoons by Thomas Nast in 1874 | - |
elephantiasis | (noun) hypertrophy of certain body parts (usually legs and scrotum); the end state of the disease filariasis | - |
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elephantine | (adjective) of great mass; huge and bulky | Synonyms: gargantuan, giant, jumbo |
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parallelepiped | (noun) a prism whose bases are parallelograms | Synonyms: parallelepipedon, parallelopiped, parallelopipedon |
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parallelepipedon | (noun) a prism whose bases are parallelograms | Synonyms: parallelepiped, parallelopiped, parallelopipedon |
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phytelephas | (noun) small genus of South American feather palms | Synonyms: genus Phytelephas |
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radiotelephone | (noun) a telephone that communicates by radio waves rather than along cables | Synonyms: radiophone, wireless telephone |
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(noun) telephony that uses transmission by radio rather than by wire | Synonyms: radiotelephony, wireless telephone |
radiotelephonic | (adjective) relating to or by means of radiotelephony | Synonyms: radiophonic |
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radiotelephony | (noun) telephony that uses transmission by radio rather than by wire | Synonyms: radiotelephone, wireless telephone |
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telepathic | (adjective) communicating without apparent physical signals | - |
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telepathise | (verb) communicate nonverbally by telepathy | Synonyms: telepathize |
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telepathist | (noun) someone with the power of communicating thoughts directly | Synonyms: mental telepathist, mind reader, thought-reader |
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(noun) a magician who seems to discern the thoughts of another person (usually by clever signals from an accomplice) | Synonyms: mind reader, thought-reader |
telepathize | (verb) communicate nonverbally by telepathy | Synonyms: telepathise |
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telepathy | (noun) apparent communication from one mind to another without using sensory perceptions | Synonyms: thought transference |
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telephone | (noun) electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds | Synonyms: phone, telephone set |
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(noun) transmitting speech at a distance | Synonyms: telephony |
(verb) get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone | Synonyms: call, call up, phone, ring |
telephoner | (noun) the person initiating a telephone call | Synonyms: caller-up, caller, phoner |
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telephonic | (adjective) of or relating to telephony | - |
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telephonist | (noun) someone who helps callers get the person they are calling | Synonyms: switchboard operator, telephone operator |
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telephony | (noun) transmitting speech at a distance | Synonyms: telephone |
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telephoto | (noun) a photograph made with a telephoto lens | Synonyms: telephotograph |
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telephotograph | (noun) a photograph made with a telephoto lens | Synonyms: telephoto |
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(noun) a photograph transmitted and reproduced over a distance | - |
telephotography | (noun) photography using a telephoto lens | - |
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(noun) transmission and reproduction of photographs and charts and pictures over a distance | - |
teleport | (verb) transport by dematerializing at one point and assembling at another | - |
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teleportation | (noun) a hypothetical mode of instantaneous transportation; matter is dematerialized at one place and recreated at another | - |
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teleprinter | (noun) a character printer connected to a telegraph that operates like a typewriter | Synonyms: teletype machine, teletypewriter, telex, telex machine |
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teleprocessing | (noun) data processing in which some of the functions are performed in different places and connected by transmission facilities | Synonyms: distributed data processing, remote-access data processing |
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